2. Skyward Sword was all jumpy and I had to mess with the settings on that specific game to stop the screen jumping issue

This is your problem. You are trying to run a game from a different region than the one the original save was created with... Not sure how that could have happened since you "claim" the rip was from your original disc...hmmmmm.....

Ok. cjizzle - thanx for the help. That seems to be the issue. Could it be a PAL vs NTFS (or whatever its called) discrepancy?

And yes. I have copies of all of my games. I can take pix if its that important to you guys. I am a hacker/modder but not a pirate. I understand that many people claim that... but my own personal integrity is important to me.

Plus, it is totally legal to obtain ROMs if you have a legal copy of the game in question.
My conscience is perfectly in tact.

So I need to make sure that both games are "of the same region"? How do I check that? Can I change the game settings in USBLOADER Gx to set the game to a different region?

If the games are of different regions they will have a completely different title ID. They are not interchangeable and you will continue to have issues like this until you USE YOUR LOADER TO RIP YOUR ORIGINAL DISKS.

Sent from my van, down by the river.

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Issue resolved - PNY 64GB Attache thumb drive will read but not write. I now use my Sandisk Cruzer 8GB thumb drive to rip.I should have congruency with all saves/disks/rips!

thanx for the help guys!!

Issue is resolved

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Now...

I would like to do the following:

1. Remove all other loaders from home menu (wad files) other than USB Loader gx v3.0 (also remove the backup/restore app added by install guide on this site)
2. Boot directly into USB Loader gx v3.0 at power on
3. Change "Return to Wii Menu" with "Return to USB Loader gx"

Thank you for submitting your findings here, that may benefit others now or in the future.

1. Which loaders specifically, and were they definitely wads (or are they HBC apps and/or combo forwarder channels)? If so, do you still have the wads? You can use wad manager and select the wad and then the mins (-) button to remove via HBC. That's predicated on you having a wad manager in your apps folder, of course.